Legendary theatre director Peter Brook returns to the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival for the first time since Le Costume in 2001 with The Grand Inquisitor - a gripping monologue in which Bruce Myers both narrates and plays the title role.

Based on an extract from The Brothers Karamazov, the veteran actor takes us back 500 years to Seville during the worst excesses of the Spanish Inquisition. In this chilling parable on religious faith and freedom of choice, hundreds of heretics are being burned at the stake, when hope suddenly returns with the arrival of a Christ-like figure who cures the sick and raises the dead…